Batla House

Sanjay Kumar is informed that five university students may be involved in the Delhi bombings and a raid is planned at L-18, Batla House. Although Sanjay orders the team to wait for his arrival, Inspector KK Singh proceeds with the operation. After the gunfire erupts, KK is killed and the building is cleared; Adil Ameen and Sadiq Khan die, while Tufail Khan is arrested alive. Dilshad Ahmed and Javed Ali escape, triggering a nationwide debate about the encounter.

KK Singh pushes ahead with the raid despite Sanjay's instruction to wait. Sanjay arrives only after the gunshots and takes over the operation. The firefight continues, resulting in further casualties and the escape of Dilshad Ahmed and Javed Ali.

In the aftermath, sections of the media and politicians condemn the Delhi Police and label the operation a fake encounter. The public demands accountability for the students killed during the raid.

Sanjay begins showing signs of post-traumatic stress, frequently hallucinating about terrorists firing at him. His wife Nandita, a news anchor, decides to stand by him and helps keep him grounded through the crisis.

Sanjay leads a renewed search to locate the missing Dilshad Ahmed and Javed Ali. He learns that one of them is hiding in Nizampur, Uttar Pradesh. The police commissioner hints that Sanjay will be awarded for the encounter and should celebrate.

Sanjay locates Dilshad and gives pursuit, but as he closes in, politicians and the public intervene, forcing Dilshad to escape while Sanjay is unable to arrest him.

After receiving the President Medal, Sanjay resumes the hunt and uses Dilshad's girlfriend Victoria alias Huma to draw him to Nepal, continuing the pursuit with his officers.

Sanjay and his team travel to Nepal and stage a plan to pick up Dilshad with a van. Dilshad dispatches someone else to check for threats, and Sanjay realizes neither is in the van and orders it to flee to avoid a trap.

Upon the van's supposed arrival in Nepal, Dilshad is intercepted, detained, and arrested by Sanjay and his team.

The court proceedings begin as the opposing lawyer Shailesh Arya counters Sanjay's truth with a parallel narrative of fake encounters, challenging the police's version of events.

Sanjay presents evidence that his officers had been watching the students and identified them as IM operatives. The trial shows the real shootout: KK Singh and his team engaging during the students' fire, and KK's death is used to argue that no officer dies in a fake encounter.

The court sentences two terrorists to life imprisonment, while the remaining operative manages to escape the country. The verdict is presented as vindication of the encounter's credibility.

Despite the court ruling, sections of the media continue to oppose the ruling and question the police's actions, keeping public debate alive about the events in Delhi.

A 2016 video surfaces featuring Javed's confession about how he escaped the encounter and later joined ISIS, lending credibility to the police's account of the events.